Index to Documents from the Autism Omnibus Hearings

Stephen Barrett, M.D.

The Omnibus Autism Proceeding was established in 2002 to enable the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to deal efficiently with claims that vaccination had caused thousands of children to become autistic. To proceed efficiently, the parties agreed to process "test cases" for each "general causation" theory presented by the Petitioners’ Steering Committee. Ultimately, two such theories were advanced:

MMR vaccines and thimerosal-containing vaccines can combine to cause autism.